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- King Henry the Fourth
an admirer, perhaps a friend, of Shakespeare's,
writes in a letter dated December 27, 1600 (?): "I
am here so pestered with country business that I shall
not be able as yet to come to London. If I stay
here long in this fashion, at my return you will find
me so dull that I shall be taken for Justice Shallow
or Justice Silence."
(2) Dekker in Satiromastix (1602), Ad Lectorem,
refers to Master Justice Shallow.
(8) Ben Jonson in Epiccene (1609), II. v., re
fers to Doll Tearsheet.
Of early performances and players of Henry IV,
Part II, there are even fewer records than there are
of Part I. James Wright in his Historia Histrionica
(1699) says that 'before the wars' Lowin acted Fal-
staff 'with mighty applause.' Pepys, who attended
at least three revivals of the first part of the play be
tween 1660 and 1668, makes no mention of any Res
toration revival of the second part. In 1700 Better-
ton, after a triumphant revival of Part I, undertook
a revision and revival of Part II. His version held
the stage for many years, and is reprinted in Lacy's
Acting Edition of Old Plays. Chetwood tells an
amusing anecdote concerning Betterton's interpreta
tion of the part of Falstaff in Part II. Johnson, an
actor, while playing in Dublin, had seen Baker, a
master-pavior, play Falstaff. Upon his return to
England he gave Mr. Betterton the manner of Baker's
playing, which the great actor not only approved of,
but imitated, and allowed that it was better than his
own.
Betterton's arrangement of the play was as follows:
Act I begins with I. ii. ; then follow the scene at
the Archbishop's, and the arrest of Falstaff fromAct II.
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